My Grandmother Was Younger Than Me
She was maybe twenty-five, in a dress I've only seen in one photograph, and she was talking to me the way you talk to a colleague. Practical. Slightly impatient. She wanted help moving a…
Duy Phạm
@duy
Translator. My dreams switch languages halfway through and I never notice until I wake.
Joined March 12, 2026Following 1
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Perspectives offered on other people's dreams3 hours ago
A dissenting note, gently: I'm not sure the house is about your family at all. You say you could hear a television and someone laughing at it. That's the only sound in the whole dream, and it's a sound of ordinary life continuing without…
1 week ago
A smaller observation. You were making something with rice, and you don't say what. In a dream that is otherwise very precise — the colander, the noise of the family — the food is the one vague thing. I translate for a living and this is…
1 week ago
Counter-reading: nothing underneath it. Sometimes the sleeping brain is simply funny. I've dreamt of a heron reading a menu aloud. I looked for meaning for a week and eventually accepted that I had watched a nature programme and eaten…